Noniterative Localized and Space-Time Localized RBF Meshless Method to Solve the Ill-Posed and Inverse Problem

In many references, both the ill-posed and inverse boundary value problems are solved iteratively. The iterative procedures are based on firstly converting the problem into a well-posed one by assuming the missing boundary values. Then, the problem is solved by using either a developed numerical algorithm or a conventional optimization scheme. The convergence of the technique is achieved when the approximated solution is well compared to the unused data. In the present paper, we present a different way to solve an ill-posed problem by applying the localized and space-time localized radial basis function collocation method depending on the problem considered and avoiding the iterative procedure. We demonstrate that the solution of certain ill-posed and inverse problems can be accomplished without iterations. Three different problems have been investigated: problems with missing boundary condition and internal data, problems with overspecified boundary condition, and backward heat conduction problem (BHCP). It has been demonstrated that the presented method is efficient and accurate and overcomes the stability analysis that is required in iterative techniques.

Completeness of the system of eigenfunctions of the Sturm-Liouville problem with the singularity

Mathematical modeling of composite materials plays an important role in modern technology, and the solution and study of inverse boundary value problems of heat transfer is impossible without the use of systems of eigenfunctions of the Sturm-Liouville problem for the differential equation with discontinuous coefficients. One of the most important properties of such systems is their completeness in the corresponding spaces. This property of systems allows to prove theorems of existence and uniqueness of both direct problems and inverse boundary value problems of thermal conductivity, and also to prove numerical methods of solving such problems. In this paper, we prove the completeness of the Sturm-Liouville problem in the space $L_2[r_0,r_2]$ for a second-order differential operator with a discontinuous coefficient. This problem arises when investigating and solving the inverse boundary problem of thermal conductivity for a hollow ball consisting of two balls with different temperature conductivity coefficients. Self-conjugacy, injectivity, and positive definiteness of this operator are proved.

CALDERÓN’S INVERSE PROBLEM WITH A FINITE NUMBER OF MEASUREMENTS

We prove that an $L^{\infty }$ potential in the Schrödinger equation in three and higher dimensions can be uniquely determined from a finite number of boundary measurements, provided it belongs to a known finite dimensional subspace ${\mathcal{W}}$ . As a corollary, we obtain a similar result for Calderón’s inverse conductivity problem. Lipschitz stability estimates and a globally convergent nonlinear reconstruction algorithm for both inverse problems are also presented. These are the first results on global uniqueness, stability and reconstruction for nonlinear inverse boundary value problems with finitely many measurements. We also discuss a few relevant examples of finite dimensional subspaces ${\mathcal{W}}$ , including bandlimited and piecewise constant potentials, and explicitly compute the number of required measurements as a function of $\dim {\mathcal{W}}$ .